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In practice, an "open standard" that has only been suitably implemented by just one party really isn't all that open.

Now, maybe there's a greater chance that the situation will change, and other suitable implementations will eventually arise. But until that happens, an open standard with one usable implementation really isn't different from a closed standard at all.

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I would counter that and say, "An 'Open Standard' created and then implemented by 1 party is no different than a closed standard".

However, Khronos[1], the entity that makes opengl, also made the webgl standard. The fact that mozilla hasn't done as good of a job implementing it as google has doesn't magically negate the fact that it is still an open standard (that mozilla has actually implemented, just poorly).

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/

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